{"id":3477,"date":"2014-07-09T20:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2014-07-09T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T20:49:24","slug":"traveling-around-gurgaon-india-life-international-school-teacher-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-gurgaon-india-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Gurgaon, India (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Gurgaon,\u00a0India<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Flying on Etihad Coral Economy class, more comfortable than most of European first classes.
\n\u2022 Changing planes at Abu Dhabi, one of the busiest, but one of the most beautiful airports ever.
\n\u2022 Arriving at Indira Ghandi International airport at New Delhi at 5 AM feeling that outside temperature is already 36\u00b0C
\n\u2022 Being picked up by a smiling, chatty driver although he had to wait for you for 2 more hours due to the delay of your arrival.
\n\u2022 Noticing that people are sleeping on their market booths and mattresses randomly placed along the road.
\n\u2022 Going through the metal detector on the entrance of your hotel in Gurgaon.
\n\u2022 Being waken up 3-4 times while trying to catch some sleep after your 10h long flight by hotel staff just to check if everything\u2019s ok.
\n\u2022 Getting a massage at a hotel spa and being treated like a king for a more than reasonable price.
\n\u2022 Driving around Gurgaon during an evening rush hour, seeing many programmers and other workers going home from work.
\n\u2022 Seeing buildings with world\u2019s most prominent IT and financials companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, KPMG, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, etc.
\n\u2022 Noticing that roads do not have any strict lanes, no street lights, forcing traffic to a way of self-organization.
\n\u2022 Going to a restaurant and seeing a family cooking dinner next to the parking, feeling ashamed.
\n\u2022 Feeling 45\u00b0C and the dry air in the middle of June.
\n\u2022 Feeling a strange smell of organic decomposing in the air.
\n\u2022 Learning about the civic system of India from local businessmen.
\n\u2022 FACT 1: There is no social security number or any other unique number for an Indian.
\n\u2022 FACT 2: There is no institutionalized healthcare institution -> all the medical services are paid in cash (or with credit cards).
\n\u2022 Learning that everyone here has a smart phone, although he\/she might not even have a house. WhatsApp and Facebook communication is a must.
\n\u2022 Learning that in the last decade, getting the landline in your house was a cause for a family celebration.
\n\u2022 Eating specifically spicy and tasty food. Not knowing how to use all the cutlery in the right way.
\n\u2022 Getting your body measured for a suit at a local tailor’s shop using the finest Italian and English materials for twice as cheap as in Europe.<\/p>\n

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Currently we have 6<\/b>\u00a0international schools listed in Gurgaon, India\u00a0on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Banyan Tree IB World School Gurgaon<\/a>
\n\u2022<\/span>\u00a0GD Goenka World School<\/a>
\n\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Lancers International School<\/a>
\n\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Manav Rachna International School<\/a>
\n\u2022<\/span>\u00a0Shalom Hill International School<\/a>
\n\u2022\u00a0<\/span>The Shri Ram School<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are on a trip\u00a0right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience\u00a0is posted\u00a0on our blog, International School Community will give you\u00a06 free months of premium membership<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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